Cultural exchange that transcends battle lines as Britain and Iraq recreate world's oldest library

The Independent - London | May 9, 2002| | Copyright

THE INSCRIPTION carved some 2,600 years ago inside the world's first library was unequivocal: "May all the gods curse anyone who breaks, defaces, or removes this tablet with a curse that cannot be relieved, terrible and merciless as long as he lives, may they let his name, his seed be carried off from the land, and may they put his flesh in a dog's mouth."

It was a warning that went unheeded 150 years ago when a British archaeological expedition excavated the ancient library in Nineveh, in what is now Iraq, and transported its 25,000 brittle clay tablets to London as a priceless record of ...

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